Siemens Digital Industries Software has teamed up with Redington to widen access to its Siemens Xcelerator industrial software suite across six African markets, in a move aimed at helping manufacturers, engineers and designers adopt more advanced digital tools for product development, simulation and operations.
According to Siemens and Redington, the initial rollout covers Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Morocco, Egypt and Tanzania, with scope for the partnership to extend into more ...
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countries later. The agreement gives businesses access to software including Teamcenter for product lifecycle management, Designcentre for product design and engineering, and Simcentre for simulation and testing, alongside Digital Twin technology and Industrial AI.
The companies say the collaboration is intended to support African industries as they spend more on digital technologies to improve efficiency, build resilience and sustain industrial growth. Redington will use its regional network and market experience to help distribute the software and support adoption on the ground.
Sayantan Dev, chief executive officer of Software Solutions Group at Redington Limited, said industrial AI is changing the way companies design, manufacture and run operations. He said the tie-up with Siemens would bring advanced software and Digital Twin capabilities closer to African businesses and help them apply those tools at scale to lift productivity and improve operations.
Cobus Oosthuizen, vice president and managing director for Africa and the Middle East at Siemens Digital Industries Software, said the deal would help the company serve customers more efficiently while meeting rising demand for digitisation across the continent. He added that Redington’s experience distributing Altair simulation tools, which Siemens integrated into its portfolio last year, made it a strong partner for the region.
The partnership builds on Siemens’ wider Xcelerator strategy, which the company describes as an open digital business platform designed to accelerate industrial transformation through software, services and connected technologies. Siemens says the platform is built to support industries in areas such as predictive maintenance, energy optimisation and digital engineering, and is increasingly being positioned as a way for companies to model, test and refine products before they are built.
Source: Noah Wire Services
